The Social Justice Impact of Plain Language: A Critical Approach to Plain-Language Analysis

Jones, Natasha N.; Williams, Miriam F.

doi:10.1109/tpc.2017.2762964

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“…Marginalized peoples are asked to look deeper into "risks" and to be ever-cautious of new ways corporations' practices and policies are further promoting social division [6]. In order to facilitate effective communication in risk environments [58] such as that of social media, technical communicators and social media users alike may consider the perception that bodymonitoring technologies simultaneously build and break access, as well as foster and disrupt established power structures [56,59,60].…”

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“…Technical communicators may consider the perception that bodymonitoring technologies simultaneously build and break access, as well as foster and disrupt established power structures [59,61]. In relation to building access, there is a sense of community that is built by choosing to participate in using such wearable devices, while access is simultaneously broken in the ways that if the user does not agree to the terms and conditions (and therefore the privacy policies) then the user cannot access the technology.…”

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Resisting Surveillance: Responding to Wearable Device Privacy Policies

Banville

2020

Proceedings of the 38th ACM International Conference on Design of Communication

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This pilot study considers risk in association with wearable devices by placing body-monitoring in conversation with privacy policies (i.e. who is controlling your data, by what means, and to what end). This article focuses on the increasingly commonplace embodied technology that is both pervasive and invasive to individuals' privacy as determined through the device users' interpretation of corporate privacy policies. The primary focus is on the underexplored intersection of undergraduate students, wearable technology, and privacy, which ultimately advocates for transparency in corporate privacy policies. In this pilot study, it was found that users who read through the privacy policies of Fitbit and Google are more likely to change their passwords and emails, pay more attention to legal jargon, and may be less likely to link all of their applications through Google.

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Resisting Surveillance: Responding to Wearable Device Privacy Policies

Banville

2020

Proceedings of the 38th ACM International Conference on Design of Communication

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“…Future work might include critical discourse analysis of publications by institutions such as the HBN that operate at the interface between formal and informal institutions. Such textual analyses could help TPC scholars identify entry points for communities to reclaim their rhetorical agency in other contexts (Jones & Williams, 2017).…”

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“…Entrepreneurship is an important pathway in the TPC literature for learning how the underresourced acquire and enact agency given weak or absent access to institutions. TPC scholars have a strong interest in studying how entrepreneurs’ rhetorical agency, empowerment, and identities are situated in and limited by specific discursive, ideological, sociocultural and economic contexts supplied by institutions (Jones & Williams, 2017; Koerber, 2006). Yet there is relatively little research on entrepreneurship in underresourced settings in TPC research on entrepreneurship and social change (cf.…”

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Making-Do on the Margins: Organizing Resource Seeking and Rhetorical Agency in Communities During Grassroots Entrepreneurship

Rajan

2020

Journal of Business and Technical Communication

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Innovation and entrepreneurship are important yet understudied pathways in the technical and professional communication (TPC) literature for studying how underresourced people enact agency given weak or absent access to institutions. Despite TPC’s social justice turn and continued internationalization of research and practice, little is known about how economically underresourced entrepreneurs work in the majority world. Drawing on multisited, ethnographic research in communities of such grassroots entrepreneurs in India, the author inquires into the processes by which innovation and entrepreneurship are practiced in extrainstitutional settings of the majority world. Popular and scholarly reports paint a simplistic picture when they claim that grassroots entrepreneurs are resourceful, resilient bricoleurs who possess deep, contextual knowledge of complex problems for which they improvise affordable solutions. Challenging this homogenizing view, the author shares rich accounts of how such individuals navigate the complex sociocultural contexts that constrain and enable bricolage on institutional margins.

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Easy-read and large language models: on the ethical dimensions of LLM-based text simplification

Freyer,

Kempt,

Klöser

2024

Ethics Inf Technol

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The production of easy-read and plain language is a challenging task, requiring well-educated experts to write context-dependent simplifications of texts. Therefore, the domain of easy-read and plain language is currently restricted to the bare minimum of necessary information. Thus, even though there is a tendency to broaden the domain of easy-read and plain language, the inaccessibility of a significant amount of textual information excludes the target audience from partaking or entertainment and restricts their ability to live life autonomously. Large language models can solve a vast variety of natural language tasks, including the simplification of standard language texts to easy-read or plain language. Moreover, with the rise of generative models like GPT, easy-read and plain language may be applicable to all kinds of natural language texts, making formerly inaccessible information accessible to marginalized groups like, a.o., non-native speakers, and people with mental disabilities. In this paper, we argue for the feasibility of text simplification and generation in that context, outline the ethical dimensions, and discuss the implications for researchers in the field of ethics and computer science.

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The Social Justice Impact of Plain Language: A Critical Approach to Plain-Language Analysis

Cited by 52 publications

References 17 publications

Resisting Surveillance: Responding to Wearable Device Privacy Policies

Resisting Surveillance: Responding to Wearable Device Privacy Policies

Making-Do on the Margins: Organizing Resource Seeking and Rhetorical Agency in Communities During Grassroots Entrepreneurship

Easy-read and large language models: on the ethical dimensions of LLM-based text simplification

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